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[edit]Chair
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| Title |
Chair |
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| Object type | Classification: NM3.1013 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description |
English: Chair, whale vertebra (whalebone), handmade, painted with white enamel paint, cut so that it forms a backrest. Three legs sawn from long bones and inserted into holes in base of seat which is formed by the natural disc of the vertebra nails used for decoration around disc perimeter |
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| Date | Regency-Modern Age-European and British-art and design period; Early 19th Century; 17 Dec 1998; 27 Jul 1998; George IV (1820 - 1830)-House of Brunswick, Hanover Line-English reign; George III (1760 - 1820)-House of Brunswick, Hanover Line-English reign | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | Handmade | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions |
height: 740mm |
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| Accession number |
1998.81.1 |
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| Place of creation | Russell | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | purchased, 1998, Collection of Auckland Museum, Tamaki Paenga Hira, 1998.81.1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes | The lucrative harvesting of the whale led to the establishment of southern fisheries in the Pacific, South Atlantic, and Indian oceans; and even took whalers down to the Antarctic barrier ice. Whaling parties came from France, Britain and America in pursuit of their quarry. By the early nineteenth century, whaling was a major industry in Aotearoa. On board the ship, sailors passed their time making scrimshaw, which is carving images on to whales' teeth. These were often taken home and given to wives and girlfriends, which is why they are sometimes known as 'sweet heart works', and the images usually represented subjects from home rather than what was happening on the ship. Russell, also known as Kororāreka by the Māori, was a popular base for visiting whalers who needed to get supplies, have repairs done to their ships, and take some shore leave. It became a notorious town, the early positive reports that brought whalers there in the beginning giving way to the nickname ‘The hellhole of the Pacific’. The whalebone chair was discovered around 1944, by an 11-year old boy who was fossicking in a private dump behind a house on the Strand in Russell. It has been made from the vertebra, a section of a whale’s spine. It has been cut and reattached so that it forms a seat with a back rest, and then three legs have been created from bones that have been cut and then inserted into naturally occurring holes in the vertebra. Then the chair has been coated with white enamel paint. You can see the difference between the whalebone chair, made in Russell by someone who needed a seat but wasn’t a furniture making professional, and the wooden chair known as the ‘Johnny Jones’ chair, named after the man who set up the whaling station at Waikouaiti, near Dunedin, where this chair was made sometime after 1838. It is made of rimu, has arms, and is a simplified version of the European style known as Regency. The contrast between these two chairs represents the shift from 'making do' to 'making here'. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | Photo | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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